USPTO Patents Application 10561839

INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT

International application No

PCT/IL2006/001487

A, CLASSIFICATION OF SUBJECT MATTER , ,

INV G01N33/5Q C12M3/00 B01L3/00

According to International Patent Classification (IPC) or to both national classification and IPC

B. FIELDS SEARCHED

Minimum documentation searched (classification system followed by classification symbols)

G01N C12M BOIL

Documentation searched other than minimum documentation to the extent that such documents are Included in the fseids searched

Electronic data base consulted during the international search (name of data base and, where practical, search terms used)

EPO-Internal , WPI Data

C. DOCUMENTS CONSIDERED TO BE RELEVANT

Category*

Citation of document with indication, where appropriate, of the relevant passages

Relevant to claim No.

X

W0 2005/103691 A (PAMGENE B V [NL]; INGHAM

COLIN JOHN [NL])

3 November 2005 (2005-11-03)

page 17, line 1 - page 18, line 14

page 2, lines 15-31; claim 1 1

1-31,37,
38

A

W0 96/31548 A (CIBA GEIGY AG [CH]; COMMW
SCIENT IND RES ORG [AU]; MEIJS GORDON
FRANCI) 10 October 1996 (1996-10-10)
page 13, paragraph 2-4

1-31

A

EP 1 262 764 Al (CORNING INC [US])
4 December 2002 (2002-12-04)
figure 6

-/--

1

X Further documents are listed in the continuation of Box C.

|X [ See patent family annex.

* Special categories of cited documents: , T . , ater document pubnshed after the international filing date

or priority date and not in conflict with the application but
"A" document defining the general state of the art which is not cited to understand the principle or theory underlying the

considered to be of particular relevance invention
"E" earlier document but published on or after the international » x . document of particular relevance; the claimed invention
i filing date cannot be considered novel or cannot be considered to
"L" document which may throw doubts on priority ciaim(s) or involve an inventive step when the document is taken alone

which is cited to establish the publication date of another -y document of particular reievance; the claimed invention

citation or other special reason (as specified) cannot be considered to involve an inventive step when the
a 0" document referring to an oral disclosure, use, exhibition or document is combined with one or more other such docu-

otfter means ments, such combination being obvious to a person skilled

■P" document published prior to the international filing date hut m ^ e arL

later than the priority date claimed '&* document member of the same patent family

Date of the actual completion of the international search

Date of mailing of the international search report

23 April 2007

21/09/2007

Name and mailing address of the ISA/

European Patent Office, P.B. 5818 Patentlaan 2
NL - 2280 HV Rijswijk

Tel. (+31-70) 340-2040, Tx. 31 651 epo nl s
Fax: (+31-70) 340-3016

Authorized officer

Tiede, Ralph

Form PCT/ISA/210 (second sheet) (April 2005)

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INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT

International application No

PCT/IL2006/001487

C(Contimiation). DOCUMENTS CONSIDERED TO BE RELEVANT

Category*

Citation of document with indication, where appropriate, of the relevant passages

Relevant to daim No.

p,x

WO 01/49824 A (NOVARTIS AG [CH]; NOVARTIS
ERFIND VERWALT GMBH [AT]; DOMSCHKE
ANGELIKA) 12 July 2001 (2001-07-12)
page 8, paragraph 4

WO 01/88185 A (DNA RES INNOVATIONS LTD
[GB] ; BAKER MATTHEW JOHN [GB])
22 November 2001 (2001-11-22)
the whole document

1-31

4-31

WO 2006/043267 A (MOLECULAR CYT0MICS LTD

[CY]; DEUTSCH MORDECHAI [IL])

27 April 2006 (2006-04-27)

page 19, line 31 - page 20, line 31;

figures 7-9

1-31,37,
38

Form PCT/ISA/2T0 (continuation of second sheet} (April 2005)

page 2 of 2